Global life expectancy has always been dominated by infant mortality. Stating this for anyone that is young or does not know. Humans did not somehow die at 30yo like the number appears at surface value. Most people died as infants or as young kids due to all the potential illnesses and complications in early life. People still lived to be 60-80 years old if they survived childhood.

If people do not stop having babies, the wars that are coming will cull the population. This is already the obvious tech bros plan for the future. This is why the super rich have their bunker islands already setup and secured.

It would be interesting to see the averaged power difference over time to see the effects.

It is never secure or truly safe to use. The kernel cannot be updated and so all vulnerabilities are adding up. You’re giving out enough info to figure out what device you are using just in the fingerprinting with every online connection. It is relatively easy for someone to look for you and exploit a known vulnerability. They don’t need a zero day or any kind of exploit. You device likely has the last secure kernel on it and there will be many published critical vulnerabilities that can be scripted.

Even if you stay offline and do not use WiFi or use airplane mode, you’re not able to verify what the modem is doing in the real world. You never owned the thing in the first place and the reason why is the proprietary binary module that supports the system on chip and modem.

All that said, it is no different than something like an old computer running Windows XT or with CP/M.

All phones have orphaned kernels. They are orphans because the source code to run the physical hardware is not available. The manufacturer adds these binaries in the last step of the ROM. They cannot be reverse engineered effectively and every model is different. Reverse engineering one does nothing for the next.

The hacked ROMs are maintained by people that know the kernel source at a crazy deep level. They know both the original kernel that the orphan is based on along with the state of every change and CVE that gets fixed in the current kernel. They are back porting all changes to the old kernel in order to keep it going. Eventually this becomes untenable or they lose interest.

Logistics is complexity in action. Supporting infrastructure is equally complex. It was the consolidation of so many industries into a global supply chain that only has a few players that makes the present cost effective. The forces at play are far greater than you realize in scope and scale. Your pitching a post civilization dystopia of death and misery. It’s bearings, chemistry, metallurgy, medicine, the list goes on and on.

The future you want will exist a long time from now, but not in the way you imagine it. Biology is the ultimate technology. It is where we are headed a millennia from now. Once the age of scientific discovery is long past and science is nothing more than an engineering corpus, a complete mastery of biology will mean we can create ecosystems with all life and technology existing within elemental cycles balance. At that point, human life will likely simplify in many ways and evolve in others.

Simplification is always regressive and backwards. When complexity seems insurmountable, the solution is to refine and reform. In science, eliminate all the ridiculous names associated. It’s not Maxwell’s equations; they are the magnetic equations. Reform stupid conventions like using the term light speed to mean the speed of causality. We need massive educational reform at all levels accounting for the wellbeing of career educators while also modernizing to account for video recording technology. We need to make housing a fundamental unalienable human right and the exploitation of survival needs like food and housing should have massive consequences.

But no, pushing against complexity is nonsense. It shows you’re naive of the use cases. I recommend you start daily watching Anton Petrov on YT or Odyssey. He covers a white paper research summary daily. You’ll learn many applications of technology and this complexity. Watch Frazier Cain for more depth on present astronomy, and watch Isaac Arthur for a view of what a distant future might look like. Read Asimov’s books like The Caves of Steel and The Naked Sun to see a glimpse of a realistic future.

The world without complexity was only able to feed around 2 billion humans. To suggest that the complexity supporting the modern world is unwanted or unneeded is to kill 6 billion people.

Are you an advocate for authoritarianism and the death of 6 billion humans to achieve the simplicity of the past? The vast majority of goods and trade are for food and the raw materials of life produced in the largest and only areas of the planet capable of sustaining this population.

To me, culture has more scope. If people refused to waste two hours a day commuting by the mental health disorder of the automobile, we would likely reshape zoning and housing to accommodate the population density required. This is longer term generational culture. It is hard for any of us to take the reigns of such a large scope. Ultimately the comprehensibility is irrelevant to the fact each of us only has one voting wallet. You either accept the way things are or you do not. Only you can change the culture you accept and live within. No one is born into an idealized circumstance that enables them. If you want the democratic freedoms of France you need to build and use a guillotine first. The people that do such a thing were not born into it. I’m not inciting violence. I am citing the magnitude of measurable change. No one is gong to make it easy for you. In this world people will exploit you in every way you are only barely willing to withstand. Ultimately it is impossible to set the bar of how much exploitation and abuse a population can or will withstand. That is not how society works. Governments do the minimum required to satisfy your collective community expectations enough to maintain power only. This minimum governance also involves letting business push people ad far as they can get away with before angering enough people of the wrong class to become a problem. Ultimately, you are the one that decides when to become a problem that gets attention in one way or another. You might try to become the person in power that does the minimum or you might take other avenues. However, your first and easiest vote is with your wallet. If you commit at this level, you will then feel far more motivated and vocal about the changes needed to create an acceptable culture you want to be a part of. You can’t expect anyone to create a better world for you if you’re not looking for one in the first place. The status que is the level of acceptable abuse with that bar set by others. You can’t accept that bar if you want more or anything better.

That article’s perspective sucks IMO. It is not the technology that is the problem in this case. The distance traveled to the meadow on foot versus the suburbs in the car had nothing to do with the technology or lack thereof. The person decided this was the normal they wanted and where they chose to live.

The fact is that this is cultural. You’re willing to work a job that is an hour’s drive away because you choose to take the job.

The one constant with technology is specialization. Things are going to increase in complexity unless civilization collapses. When noticeable shifts happen like with AI, many people groan at the additional burden of change. This has always and will always be the case, especially for people that are overworked and their livelihood put at risk from a technology they do not understand and struggle to learn. AI is especially troublesome because it is extremely complex and difficult to understand just under the surface of the near useless subscription services and basic publicly accessible tools.

Ultimately, the issue is cultural. You must stop working for free and stop treating corporate social media like a form of self promotion. I expect my job description to contractually state what my responsibilities are. If I answer phone calls for anything off the clock, I have a two hour minimum pay for my time. This culture of responsibility without compensation is a massive problem, as is acceptance of “it’s just the way things are” mentality. Unplug from all corporate nonsense and think for yourself. Then push others to do the same. Only take a job that is close by, or move. Find a better job and don’t accept abuse. It is a cultural problem.

Thanks for the advice and reference. With my physical disability and situation, I’m looking at a future where these skills and knowing what works by experience might be important for my physical and mental health. At this point, I could buy almost anything and have better food options than most people. At the rate my life is going, and the lack of help I’ve been able to access, I’m just preparing for a potential future. I am looking for things I can access and utilize within government issued food aid limitations, and how best to minimize my waste now while I have no effective constraints. I’m not paralyzed but I am very limited in how long I can sit upright or stand. I can’t do anything labor intensive or much lifting, but I can easily do things around the house that are 5-10 minutes here and there across the hours of my day spent mostly lying down. Even the potential failures do not bother me. The actual experience will make the information stick in my mind on my abstracted intuitive map of knowledge in such a way that I am likely to remember it for decades, if not the rest of my life.

You wouldn’t happen to know if Rosemary stalks can be rooted would you? I could try that one right now.

Exploring seed variations for food variety sounds like the kind of grassroots sociopoliti-bio-hacker rebellion I would join to battle the monoculture authorities and their reproducible recipe consumerism empire. Who’s ready for Darth Monsanto and the Proprietary Sith?

Thanks! I have a range of UV lights for several purposes, mostly for photolithography, printed circuit boards, and curing resins. I’ll give it a try. I keep a small filament (365nm IIRC) UV light around for generating O³ that is always handy. That should make for an interesting experiment, although it may be too far away from the visible range to fluoresce in the visible spectrum, the O³ would likely get them moving.

IIRC there was a blog post article in the last year-ish about a researcher at Intel that had been working on using FPGA’s for AI. IIRC, they mentioned that the issue they could not overcome was power and scaling. I seem to recall them mentioning that analog had a similar issue with scaling and throughput, but that is the weakest aspect I recall in my abstractions when my main curiosity is why large FPGA’s are not the present goto tech.

I’m on the edge of my understanding here, but I think the issue with analog is the depth of tensor rank dimensions. Analog is great and super efficient for the first few dimensions, but AI can have many rank dimensions, and there is no telling what the future of algorithms will hold. Building for optimising the way models work presently is practically guaranteed to result in a useless product by the time it is fabricated and brought to market.

I appreciate that actionable near term and like to see what you’re thinking. My perspective is largely forced by my physical disability; where I am deeply aware of the limitations of the present. While you’re seemingly focused on a hope for a better near term, I am looking to a point where problems like mine are not problems at all.

I think you might find this rather interesting about that future: planets are round… /s LOL jk. The roundness from gravity is part of the differentiation process for resources. Planets are truly resource scarce due to differentiation. The vast majority of resources are inaccessible in the center of the planet. This is actually the primary reason we struggle at our present global wealth and scale. The moment humanity has access to space based resources from just a few near earth objects, everything about resources and wealth will be turned on its head. There are near Earth objects that are known to be planetesimal core remnants. These are already concentrated wealth. The USA’s space efforts focus on alpha stupidity, but Japan focuses specifically on space based resource extraction and exploration. While the future may seem bleak, and the implications of space based resources and the upheaval of the present systems will inevitably cause chaos, everything about the present will become antiquated within a couple of decades. The move to space based industry will happen astonishingly quickly. The quick increase in wealth will fuel an age of scientific research and development unlike the present. Moving humans into space will require development of closed loop elemental cycles. The overall implications are enormous. We are on the cusp of accessing that future with large reusable rockets. The car was patented in the 1890’s by Benz, but it did not reach the poor until the late 1920’s when Ford made them cheaply enough to be accessible. Those that think in terms of increasing accessibility are the ones that change eras, or can under the right circumstances.

Anyways, these are the more near term ideas that are the next major stepping stone to the future. Planets are prisons of misery. We are presently still in the stone age; the stone age of silicon.

Do it without feudalism though.

Should. Where’s the riots over the king makers?

See this is why I like to talk and ask this kind of thing. I agree with you and your perspective. I mentioned it because I really don’t know how I feel on the subject. I speak to my hesitation; not from my actionable stance.

I still struggle with the idea of validating stupidity and the long term implications that will cause in the future. Like monarchy, under the right person and circumstances is great. The problem is that it is impossible to deal with the succession crisis successfully as history has proven. Equality only works when it is kept in balance with a meritocracy to some extent, lest we elect a government full of mental health patients in the name of equality. On the level of nature itself, we are not actually equal. Our relative differences are usually minor, but we are not all leaders in a respective academic field. Are there positive outcomes that result from placing people of dubious capability in charge of such things?

Like ages ago I had a car break down in the middle of New Mexico on an Indian reservation. People were super nice and helpful, but that place was in terrible shape. I can’t help but think they would be far better off if they had much better opportunities that bridged the past and present. Something like free rides in education and tax breaks for employers that hire Native Americans.

I still feel like placing feelings above fundamental logic skills is a path with no future. I don’t believe in giving a flat earther a seat at a science conference. Do you?

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Gov. Gavin Newsom has set in motion the largest land return in California history, declaring his support for the return of ancestral lands to the Shasta Indian Nation that were seized a century ago and submerged. The 2,800 acres in Siskiyou County are part of the Klamath River dam removal project, which will rehabilitate more than 300 miles of salmon habitat. “This is a down payment on the state’s commitment to do better by the Native American communities who have called this land home since time immemorial,” Newsom said in a statement. The governor’s announcement Tuesday marked the fifth anniversary of California’s official apology to its Native American peoples for the state’s historical wrongdoings.

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AITA for feeling torn between justice for mistreated people, a desire for diversity, but also a dislike for spiritism of any sort albeit Abrahamic or otherwise? Don’t be an A for someone asking a tough question and trying to nav their biases.

I would probably react negatively, without thinking a few years ago if I saw someone ask this question, so I totally understand the tendency to do so. My question is based on two situations. The telescopes on Mauna Kea in Hawaii and resistance to them, and watching Nick Zentner’s geology YT uploads where he tries to include some natives and their perspectives. I wanted so bad to see value in what they had to add, like the potential for their oral history to have some missing value overlooked by science, or some narrative like that, but it was always like watching a toddler tell the most cringe stories. Like I expected some kind of consistency in stories like, ‘this is how we tell the stories and how we remember them.’ However, instead it was like everything I disliked about growing up in conservative Christian cult like extremism. Every question asked had an answer off the cuff. Not some kind of rehearsed thing they knew, but like a child making it up as they went. The focus was not factual or an alternate useful approach. It came across to me as someone that desperately wanted validation of ineptitude.

I’ll readily admit I have a strong prejudice against spiritism. I really want to support righting injustices for people. I’ve experienced the injustice of having my life all but taken from me at the hands of a stranger driving a car poorly. I totally get behind that part. I don’t expect people to integrate into religious culture, but I do expect people to modernize when advancement is shown. Like if the mountains near my house are a world class opportunity to advance human understanding, I don’t care about the bullshit rituals some church did up there in the past or what my idiot family did for generations. I appreciate the opportunity to advance all of humanity’s knowledge and future. I have a hard time feeling empathy for anyone that feels otherwise, like they are little more than an anarchic regressive force. Feel free to make a counter point in a productive way, but know that I walk away from rude or negative people just like in the real world. So I’ll delete this if people downvote because they can’t handle real conversations or controversy without being a negative person.

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